Gray v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Auto-Train Corp. v. Midland-Ross Corp. (1987), Penn Mutual Life Insurance v. Abramson (1987)
4 federal appellate · 5 district · 16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Harrington v. Emmerman · Brown v. Collins · Mary Osin v. Robert H. Johnson · Duckett v. Duckett · Rosenschein v. Citron
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] constructive trust arises where a person who holds title to property is subject to an equitable duty to convey it to another on the ground that he would be unjustly enriched if permitted to retain it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Gore v. Gore · Davey v. King““(a) In a civil action against: ... (2) the committee, trustee, executor, administrator, heir, legatee, devisee, assignee, or other representative of a deceased person or of a person so incapable of testifying, a judgment or decree may riot be rendered in favor of the plaintiff founded on the uncorroborated testimony of the plaintiff or of the agent, servant, or employee of the plaintiff as to any transaction with, or action, declaration or admission of, the deceased or incapable person.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“except for errors of law unless it appears that the judgment is plainly wrong or without evidence to support it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.